Anniversary of the Creation of Man

[mbarrick]

And my question for the day is this: If God is all-powerful, why did He need to rest on the seventh day?

Comments

[valerian.livejournal.com]

Because He needed some peace and quiet from all the b.s. going on in the garden of Eden.

Hmmm,

[nikki-sixx.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose even the almighty and all-powerful get tired too...

Re: Hmmm,

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

That's the thing though. If you are almighty your powers are infinite - infinity less any amount is still infinite. No amount of effort should impact His enegry-level in the least. If an effort, no matter how large, was to cause a significant enough drain as to necessitate resting then that necessarily implies that there is a finite limit to His powers.

Re: Hmmm,

[nikki-sixx.livejournal.com]

AHHH, I feel like I am back in my second yr philosopy of metaphysics class! The problem is, is that no matter which way you swing it, this argument is cyclical. Try arguing this case with a christian. Ahhh, we had some fun times with that one!!! Hee hee.

That's the thing about faith

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

By its very nature you can't argue with it. All someone with "faith" has to do to knock the crap out of any sensible argument is spout off something like "God works in mysterious ways" or "Who are we to question God?" or some such other platitude.

What's interesting in how people keep faith regardless of any questions or reason. A few years ago I read about some research that determined that there are parts of the human brain that are effectively hard-wired (in some people moreso than others) for heirarchical authority. Not at all surprising in a social animal, really. Faith, it seems, is a result of that mechanism. Of course even that doesn't prove anything because there's no prooving that this "built-in" need that most people have for an authority to follow is not in fact "placed" there by God.

ooooh look at me i made the world...i'm a big god...

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

lazy bastard...if he made the world in six days why even have a seventh??? everything was done...he just wanted a day where everyone would have to sit around and admire him...what a freakin' narcissist...

Re: ooooh look at me i made the world...i'm a big god...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Also a good point. If you are almighty what good is glory and worship from your infinitessimal creations?

Re: ooooh look at me i made the world...i'm a big god...

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

yeh that would be like adulation from cockroaches...

Re: ooooh look at me i made the world...i'm a big god...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Remember the Twilight Zone episode (or was it Outer Limits?) where the guy had an ant farm and somehow the ants became sentient? As I recall in the end he fell in and they ate him.

Re: ooooh look at me i made the world...i'm a big god...

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

i vaguely remember it, in fact i was going to use ants as an example, but instead i opted for cockroaches...so god had better not fall into the earth, we'll eat him...and look what ben did to willard for that matter...

[uberbabe.livejournal.com]

Well if I had people doing the shit that they do in my name I'd want a day of rest from it too!

He just wanted to kick back...

[logik.livejournal.com]

S/He just wanted to kick back, watch and laugh his/her ass off.

Did I mention that creation was just a joke?

Re: He just wanted to kick back...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Funny, I always thought it was the other way around - that God is a Joke that we made up.

Could be...

[logik.livejournal.com]

But consider:

Given that the universe's volume in 3 dimensions (not necessarily 4 or 5) would be infinite, and the number of human beings is finite, one can calculate that the population density for humans in the universe is zero (actually the correct term is "approaches" zero). Therefore there are no people in the universe.

Anyone you happen to meet therefore is a figment of a derranged imagination.

God may be imaginary, but I'm starting to be pretty sure that just about everyone else is too. Five minutes on a Vancouver bus at rush hour and you realize that you have to be imagining 'em all.

Ugggghhh...

This place is crawling with humans.

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

Becasue he's a lazy bastard

Anniversary of the Creation of a Woman.

[tnkgrl.livejournal.com]

Friday was actually the anniversary of the creation of my cunt :)

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well there you go. Definitely one-ups circumcision ;-)